Get a student from Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management as an intern

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Accepting an intern from the Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management programme is an excellent opportunity for you and your company to team up with an Academy student who can carry out specific tasks relating to your service company, and also contribute with new approaches for your company’s challenges.

By agreeing to collaborate on an internship programme you can get:

extra staff to work with the operation and the development of your service business

the opportunity to test a potential employee in real life

the opportunity to provide a student with valuable hands-on experience

The internship concludes with an internship report. Most Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management students produce their final exam project for the company in continuation of their internship. The student’s project is a good opportunity for the company to, for example, obtain a detailed report of a specific area, have a specific analysis performed or have additional resources to complete a development task.

What type of work can you expect an intern to carry out?

On the AP in Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management, you must choose one of three specialisations in the first semester. Below you can see examples of practical tasks and main projects that the students can perform within the different specialties.

These are examples of internship tasks and final exam projects for students specialising in outdoor activities and events:

An analysis of a company’s development areas within outdoor

activities and events

Preparation of strategies for future company activities

New ideas for collaboration exercises and customer events

Risk assessment and preparation of activity action plans

Planning and execution of outdoor activities and events followed by feedback and evaluation

Description and documentation of safety approval activities and applications to various trusts and other funding options

Participation in normal day-to-day work.

These are examples of internship tasks and final exam projects for students specialising in tourism:

Initiatives aimed at improving the guest’s experience of the service before, during and after the visit

Planning and execution of events and functions

Renewal of the company’s experience-based services

A strategy for creating value for customer relations, e.g. via social media

Competitor and market analyses

Budgets for projects and events

Customer behaviour analyses and targeted marketing activities

Proposals for network collaboration, both nationally and internationally

Participation in normal day-to-day work.

These are examples of internship tasks and final exam projects for students specialising in hotels and restaurants:

In the beginning of the internship period an educational plan is worked out between the intern and the internship host. This plan must be sent to Business Academy Aarhus for approval within a couple of weeks after the intern starts in the company.

As the internship is part of the Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management programme, your company is not obliged to pay a salary to the intern.

The internship company may provide students with grants for documented expenses associated with their internship. This could, for example, be for transport costs, insurance, a telephone or the rent. The grant can be a fixed monthly fee; the only requirement is that the costs must be documented.

The programme in Service, Hospitality and Tourism Management is a 2-year higher education Academy Profession degree programme, which among other things qualifies the student to work within the development and planning of services in both national and international service companies.

This field of study gives the student particular knowledge about hotels and restaurants.

An AP graduate specialising in hotels and restaurants can, for example, work as a receptionist, booking coordinator or sales consultant. After some years of experience you could become a hotel manager, conference manager or restaurant manager.

The admission requirements are an upper secondary certificate or a relevant vocational education.

If the internship takes place in a company in Denmark, the student is covered by the act on worker's compensation (lov om arbejdsskadesikring), cf. executive order no. 937 from 26 November 2003, and by the act on liability for damages (lov om erstatningsansvar). If the internship takes place in a company outside of Denmark, then it is the student's responsibility to examine and assess whether he or she can be covered by the company's insurance polcicies. In cases where the student is not covered by the company's insurance, the student must ensure that they have any necessary insurance.

If you are interested in having a student from the Hospitality and Tourism Managementprogramme as an intern, the first thing you need to do is to send an internship advertisement to us which we will forward to the students via the Academy’s intranet. Please specify in the advertisement the tasks you would like the intern to carry out and the expectations you might have in relation to the student’s competencies and personal profile.